Work for Progress is Hiring for the Community Voters Project

by Ann Greaney-Williams on July 11, 2012

I want to alert you job opportunities for your students interested in making a difference in our democracy this fall. The Community Voters Project is hiring college graduates and current students to run non-partisan voter registration offices in African American communities that suffer low civic participation.

I’m hoping you can help spread the word about these opportunities with your students and campus. Feel free to forward the job description at the end of this email. If you have any particular candidates in mind, your recommendation would be highly valued in our application process.

If you would like to receive future job opportunities for students looking for non-profit careers, email Jeff Sprague at jsprague@workforprogress.org.

The Community Voters Project is immediately hiring Citizen Outreach Directors to run non-partisan grassroots voter registration offices through October 2012. Help make a change by helping register African American voters. Here in Wisconsin an estimated 80,000, or 41%, of eligible African Americans are not registered to vote, and registering to vote is the first step in active participation in our democracy. For more information, contact Recruitment Director Jeff Sprague at (303) 623-4900 ext 201 or jsprague@workforprogress.org.

We are looking for smart, motivated, action-oriented organizers who are interested in politics and have a commitment to social justice organizing. Citizen Outreach Directors will build and manage a team to run a campaign which will register 10,000-30,000 voters. Directors will recruit, manage and motivate staff, manage outreach sites, conduct registration and train canvassing staff to register voters. Nationally, we will register voters in eight states to help 350,000 under represented voters more easily exercise the right to vote. The Community Voters Project is a project of Fair Share Education Fund. Citizen Outreach Directors will work for Work for Progress, through a partnership with Fair Share Education Fund. To find out more, and to apply now, visit: http://www.fairsharealliance.org/edfund/jobs